“Fuck the Midwest” Edition – Weekend Lesser Footy Preview

You can take the states of Meeeechigan and Ohio and use them exclusively for nuclear waste storage for all I care. Oh, and I guess to hold the collective ESPN commentator ejaculate.

Anyway, Burnley host Man City to kick your Saturday off. You can watch while pretending to have resolve to get up early and get on that treadmill/exercise bike (7:30, NBCSN). You get a terrible, unspeakable game on NBCSN in the 10:00 window, watch Leicester/Middlesbrough on CNBC instead.

5th position Spurs invade top of the table Chelski at 12:30, and it rightly gets big boy NBC coverage. This is the match of the weekend, and a true test of whether Chelski have the mettle of a potential champion. Tottenham usually do quite poorly here, but this is a different caliber side than most of the past decade-plus.

CNBC start Sunday with a drab double-header of Watford/Stoke (7:00) and Arsenal/Bornemoth (9:15). At least the latter is a grudge match between Horatio and yeah right!

The real action is in the 11:30 window, with NBCSN taking Manure hosting West Ham, with Mourinho trying to pull himself out of a death spiral against an equally desperate side that surprisingly finds itself just clear of the relegation zone. On CNBC, 7th position Everton visit 11th place Soton, who will look to provide a rude welcome to their former manager, Ronald Koeman. Everton are in very poor form at present, so…blech.

Georgia Tech at Georgia (Noon, SECN)

This game is underrated in the intensity of the hatred it produces/involves, but it will be nigh unwatchable this year due to the Bees’ offensive style and the Dawgs’ offensive ineptitude. The latter is largely due to youth, though. GT is abandon all hope, ye who enter here…

Kentucky at Louisville (Noon, ESPN)

They moved this “always used to be Labor Day Weekend” fixture to the end of the season, presumably to make fans more confused as to why this isn’t a basketball game.

Michigan at Ohio State (Noon, ABC)

HantaAIDS FOAR all.

Mississippi State at Ole Miss (3:30, SECN)

Johnny Reb needs this Egg Bowl (coo coo ka-choo!!) to qualify for a shitty bowl bid, thanks to their hilarious loss at Vandy. The Cowbells just aim to fuck shit up, which is always fun in a rivalry game.

Auburn at Alabama (3:30, CBS)

Iron Bowl! A game Roll Damn Time could conceivably lose! No wait, Bama’s at home. Try again next year, War Damn Eagle.

Notre Dame at USC (3:30, ABC)

Because laughing at Brian Kelly is really, really fun.

Utah at Colorado (7:30, Fox)

Buffs go to the Pac 12 title game with a win. Otherwise, SC gets it.

South Carolina at Clemson (7:30, ESPN)

The Chickens are pretty meh, but stabilized a little bit late, as the Tiggers have wobbled. Minor upset potential is present.

Tennessee at Vanderbilt (7:30, SECN)

Vandy can also get into a shit bowl with a win over a rival, and the Vols have little to play for other than maintaining their .950-ish all-time record over the sad sack Commodores. Again, minor upset potential is present.

Florida at Florida State (8:00, ABC)

I see nothing compelling in this “spotlight” game whatsoever.

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

I have breakfast with my sis who is in town for once, she is all over the country for work and never gets home. Then I have Fakesgiving at my mom’s which I have to go to because I skipped out on my other side of my families Thanksgiving that I love but I felt like shit that day. Then the rest of the Bears game. Even skipping the afternoon games I have to finish this ep and do at least one more ep of Westworld if I want to somehow fit in this RW before the new ep airs

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Party Down is one of the most underappreciated treasures of the universe.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Is that really surprising, though?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

P.T. Anderson getting quality dramatic performance out of both Mark Wahlberg and Adam Sandler, THAT was surprising.

Gratliff

When he woke up during the train scene, all I wanted was this:
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Gratliff

I thought it was going to be a piece of cake finding a table with lego baseplates for a 9 year old. Apparently every lego table that was ever made was made 2 ft and shorter. Dad isn’t looking to be fucking creative this Christmas, but here we go. Time for Ikea and glue.

JerBear50

Good idea. It will be much more tolerable after you sniff the glue a bit.

Marc Trestmans Windowless Van

Working on a Westworld RW before the penultimate ep of the season tomorrow night, which are the best in a lot of HBO shows. Hit the point in the series were this is played on the player piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGT4V6JmINA

ballsofsteelandfury

Probably my favorite song ever

JerBear50

Took the ex (a couple exes ago now) to see her awhile back. Wasn’t bad but that was my intro to Holly Williams who was the opener. She’s fucking great and is further proof that talent skips a generation in the Hank family.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I realy love it when you encounter an opening band that is better than the headliner. Happened to me at my very first show ever when i saw Spring-Heeled Jack outplay the MIGHTY mighty Bosstones.

JerBear50

Yeah, I wasn’t expecting much. That one was for the benefit of the ex, not me. Sheryl Crow isn’t bad but not someone I’d go see. She’s just a little too poppy and the few or hers that I like I’m far past tired of.

Croooow

Colorado in the PAC-12 title game. How about that. I don’t think they even won a single conference game last year.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I hate IPA’s and I never should have opened this thing.

[keeps drinking]

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and in the morning you will still be ugly. And I’m probably drunk enough that in the morning I will still be drunk.

I’m sorry I called you ugly. I didn’t mean it. In all likelihood I don’t actually know what you look like.

I love you folks.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I love you most of all, adult Lacey Chabert.

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Col. Duke LaCross

That’s been the case since the 1840’s.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Die Hard 2 is on.

Smell you later.

Bloody Lethal

The best Die Hard.

JerBear50
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OK let’s pick it back up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0aHmMfZTEw

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Spanky Datass

Bill Withers: Bad Ass. Just sayin’.

JerBear50

There was a good documentary out on him awhile back. He’s a really interesting cat.

Senor Weaselo

Evening everyone. Fantastic Beasts was pretty, pretty, pretty good.

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Shogun Marcus

Like so?
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JerBear50

That’s one of the better non-Cocker Beatles covers that I’ve heard.

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JerBear50

Jesus, that’s cool as shit. It sounds just like he’s going into Freedom.

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JerBear50

Goddammit, that’s the wrong video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xEvsJtrl60

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JerBear50

This is a theme I can get behind.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

So, I see the theme of the evening is formerly jailbait cleavage?

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That’s the theme of all my evenings.

The Maestro

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-P4DVCsd70

You might be cool but you’ll never be Dire Straits bass-player rocking out in sneakers and a blue blazer cool.

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Unsurprised

I’m unclear on how they’ve made a multi-season series about a housewife who takes a job jerking guys off for a living.

Unsurprised

I doubt they show her cleavage per episode for more than the length of these individual gifs.

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This double post was NOT COOL.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I don’t know; if it had to be Dire Straights is a good one.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/27cb03c2d1ac9c12d9ebb9e9f26a4a98/tumblr_og96vqAmgQ1s01qkyo1_500.gif

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-P4DVCsd70

You might be cool but you’ll never be Dire Straits bass-player rocking out in sneakers and a blue blazer.

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Unsurprised

This is 100% true.

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Unsurprised

Well, he’s already cowed everyone else into submission.

ballsofsteelandfury

Welcome to your Mexican presidency, America!

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herodotus450

Says it was a congratulatory phone callp he’s not even the president yet. Argentinian guy even says he has known her since she was a child. Doesn’t seem like a big deal.

herodotus450

Also, REMEMBER FUCKING HALLIBURTON? Now that was a conflict of interest but if you said anything about it, that wouldn’t be “supporting the troops.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Guess you didn’t read the whole thing.

Unsurprised

The defense goes as “Conflict of interest prohibitions don’t apply to the President.”

This is true. But he’s not running the companies and isn’t the direct beneficiary. His kids are. And I have no problem with, and there’s a much easier case to be made, to just go after them. Not that it matters because the DOJ doesn’t target the rich and powerful unless forced to, and even then it just slaps them on the wrist, but this isn’t any different than if Hillary were in power.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Moose is the one making us hard

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Unsurprised

You’d think Colorado would be chill af